Chapter about the original Telephone Building owned by Southwestern Bell Telephone Company on the northwest corner of 11th and Oak Streets. It was completed in 1919. Fourteen floors were added and completed...

This collection contains 35 black and white 8 x 10 photographs from a photo album by the Harkins Commercial Photo Company in Kansas City. The images are of interior and exterior views of the Municipal...

Chapter about the boom in growth in Kansas City during the 1880s, describing the need for architects in general and discussion about specific architects, including Asa Beebe Cross, or Asa Cross (1826-1894),...

Origins of the Kansas City Power & Light company itself as well as its building, erected by the Swenson Construction Company. General drawings under the direction of Mr. Meriwether. Mechanical drawing...

Description of Henry Van Brunt, a prominent Kansas City architect starting in the late 1880s and in 1899 elected national president of the American Institute of Architects, "an honor for the first time...

Biographical description of Thomas Wight, older brother in the architectural firm of Wight & Wight, born in Canada in 1874 and emigrating to Kansas City in 1904 before designing the Nelson-Atkins Museum...

Biographical description of Edwin Morgan Price, or Edwin Price, "designer and chief draftsman for Mr. Hoit" of the architectural firm of Howe, Hoit & Cutler. Born in 1884 in Arkansas and coming to Kansas...